Evening on Karl Johan Street
1892 · Oil on canvas · KODE Art Museums, Bergen
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About this work
- Artist
- Edvard Munch (1863–1944)
- Year
- 1892
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- 84.5 × 121 cm
- Collection
- KODE Art Museums, Bergen
- Movement
- Symbolism
- Series
- The Frieze of Life
A tight crowd in top hats and straw hats surges towards us down Kristiania's main street at dusk, faces yellow-green and wide-eyed, while a single dark figure walks the other way along the empty roadway. Lit windows glow in pink façades on the left, and the Storting building and tall trees stand against a deep blue sky. Munch painted it in 1892, drawing on an experience he described in his diary of passers-by who all seemed to stare at him. It is one of the earliest works of his Frieze of Life and belongs to KODE in Bergen, in the Rasmus Meyer Collection.
This full-bleed edition prints the work edge to edge from a high-resolution scan of the original, very slightly cropped (a few percent at most) to fit the sheet. The gallery edition shows the whole work, uncropped. The original is in the public domain.
Where it works
Night blue, brick pink and sickly yellow faces give a restless city picture for a hallway, entrance or study. Pair it with Toulouse-Lautrec's At the Moulin Rouge, another crowd of lamplit faces, at 36×24 in a black frame.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Symbolism painting
- Era
- 19th century (1892)
- Orientation
- Landscape
- Mood
- classic
- Rooms
- hallway or entryway, study or library, living room, dining room
- Good gift for
- housewarming, art lovers
Size. We'd hang this one at 36×24. Prints at 18×12, 24×16, 36×24 in — 18×12 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 24×16 above a console or sideboard; 36×24 as the statement piece above a sofa or headboard.
Framing. Printed edge to edge: a slim black or dark wood frame right to the image, or let the canvas wrap do the framing. Also available gallery-wrapped on canvas, ready to hang with no frame.
Pairing. Pairs as a set of three with other famous painting prints (10% off three or more).
Details & materials
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About this design
The Madten promise
An exhibition poster
The same artwork as a gallery exhibition poster — title, artist & date typeset beneath the image on a soft ground.
A fine-art print
The same artwork as a clean fine-art print — the image shown large with a minimal caption.
